Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (Oops due to name changes it is now Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey) is out now. The movie staring everyone’s favorite Not-Clearly-All-There sweetheart Harleen Quinzel better known as Harley Quinn. Now this isn’t exactly a review of the movie, which was an amazing zany fantabulous trip of fun and violence that matched Ms. Quinn’s personality and was only as outrageous as its incredibly long movie title, but is more about the contents within the film and how it harkens to another crazy comic book character but back to the movie. It had it all quick and crazy pacing that was only showed up with its amazing fight scenes. This and Harley’s character and quirky personality reminded me of another crazy comic book messiah of mischief, Deadpool.
For those who are new and don’t know exactly who or what Deadpool is, he is the wise cracking mercenary who’s love for violence and one liners is almost as big as his love for chimichangas. We don’t call him the merc with a mouth for any reason. There seems to be a big connection to Harley and Deadpool that is not only obvious in both characters being as being as crazy larger than life characters that are just as insane as their fighting gets. There’s even a bit parallels in both movies that are over the top violence and comedy bonanzas. Harley even takes in a kid protege in Cassandra Cain like Deadpool did with the fire wielding kid at the end of Deadpool 2. So you could say that what Warner Bros is giving our miss Harley Quinn the Deadpool treatment in its DCEU, right? If not they should.
How well the critics are loving the new Fantabulous Emancipation of one Harley Quinn, oops again I mean Harley Quinn and the Birds of Prey and whether they are going to make a whole franchise out of her there is a abundance of untapped potential in what they can do not only with her character other than giving her movies R-ratings, and a pretty lame name change if we’re really being honest. As big and over the top and full of personality that Birds of Prey was, I feel like things can be bigger and grander if WB decides to turn Harley into her own movie franchise. They can really up the ante in fights scenes, character, and story that outdo every movie. They can go full Charlie’s Angels Full Throttle where they went, umm Full Throttle on the action and campiness of the first film which made it such a gem and is appreciated by fans of the series and millennials all over social media. It wouldn’t hurt to match that in promotion as it has done wonders for Deadpool and his franchise. I want to see Baby Harleys, I Didn’t See Birds of Prey t-shirts and I’m a huge loser for it, and witty jokes on Twitter, even Oscar snub jokes or them making fun of Joker and Joaquin Phoenix’s passionate and moving speech about cow milk. Almost as much as I kinda want Deadpool to tackle Moulin Rouge after that Diamonds Are a Girl’s best friend hallucination scene. What are your thoughts?
